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May 7, 2025
Republicans Unveil Plan to Rein in Student Debt and Waste in Higher Education
…borrowing for graduate and professional programs. These loans have enabled institutions to dramatically expand expensive master’s degrees—many of which offer questionable labor market value to students—knowing that federal dollars would…
May 7, 2025
Did ‘China Shock’ Throw Millions of Americans Out of Work?
…you know that the decline was 49 percent in Australia, 34 percent in Canada, 34 percent in Denmark, 38 percent in France, 23 percent in Italy, 32 percent in Japan,…
May 2, 2025
SNAP is About Nutrition: My Response to Zycher
…abundance and will strengthen the Nation’s agricultural economy, as well as result in more orderly marketing and distribution of foods. To alleviate such hunger and malnutrition, a supplemental nutrition assistance…
May 1, 2025
Tariffs Plus AI Makes for a Rocky Job Market. How Should Workers Prepare?
In today’s labor market, few occupations are safe from AI disruption. It’s been a rough month for hiring plans. The market volatility ignited by President Donald Trump’s tariff policies has…
April 30, 2025
Is The Collapse of Blue-Collar Marriage a Foregone Conclusion?
…hard. The U.S. economy saw over 9 million healthcare jobs added to the labor market since 1990, with most of the non-college educated jobs taken in that field by women,…
April 25, 2025
What’s holding women back from starting a family?
…worth marrying. “Inasmuch as there has been less of a norm around marriage, I believe that it has to do with the brutality of the dating market, and the difficulty…
April 24, 2025
AI “Slop” Comes for Job Interviews
…really are. Now, AI is making itself felt in job interviews. New tools, including this one, are on the market to help interviewees perform better in remote interview settings. The basic…
April 24, 2025
In Opposing Last Month’s Continuing Resolution, Nearly All Democrats Voted to Shut Down Welfare Checks, Too
…the legislation. It also marked a rare example of most Democrats’ voting to shut down funding for welfare benefits, which they otherwise regularly support extending at levels set in the…
April 24, 2025
Not Local Enough: The Montgomery County Public Schools Case
…As Charles Tiebout observed in his classic 1956 essay, A Pure Theory of Local Expenditures, municipalities compete for residents based on the market basket of public goods they offer. There is…
April 21, 2025
The City That’s Always Working
…is to know about businesses, industry sectors, and market conditions. This closes the knowledge gap within companies and reduces “latency,” the difference between responding to customer inquiries and interests and…